30 -The Prince George Citizen - Friday, July 14, 1995
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                                                                                          by SUE LEEMAN
    SHEPPERTON, England (AP) — Ahoy there, me hearties! It’s the Muppets at sea.
    You’ll find them aboard a galleon: Kermit in a curled grey wig and frock coat with tricorn hat. Miss Piggy in full skirts with corset. And Fozzie Bear? Oh, Fozzie Bear is a vision in the lace and velvet costume of an 18th-century squire.
    So just what is this latest Muppet caper?
    The fuzzy troupe is in Britain filming The Muppet Treasure Island, very loosely based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s rollicking adventure yarn of pirates and treasure, intrigue and disappointment.
    There are more human stars than in other Muppet feature movies, but, as usual, those megastars Kermit and Miss Piggy just hog the limelight.
    “I iook kind of authoritative, a noble captain of the sea,” Kermit recently confided during a break in filming. As Captain Smollet, he commands the mighty galleon Hispaniola, which takes kitchen lad Jim Haw kins in search for treasure.
    “We all enjoy playing these characters in classical literature. And, of course, it’s a very good story.”
    Miss Piggy is Benjamina Gunn, Kermit’s long lost love. She’s also the verbal, voluptuous love goddess Boom Sha-Ka-La-Ka-La, who is worshipped by the inhabitants of Treasure Island and rides a real elephant.
    As usual, it’s Kermit’s love she craves.
    “Yes, we have a romantic interest in each other in the film,” says Kermit with a small sigh. “There are no love scenes, although we do hang upside down together facing death. But, in our personal
Muppet life at sea
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 Kermit the Frog, left, portrays Captain Abraham Smollet, Sam Eagle is Mr Arrow, and Sweetums, right, is himself in this scene from the movie Muppet Treasure Island, which is being made in Britain this summer.
 lives, we have gone our separate ways.”
    Fozzie plays the dumb but genial Squire Trelawny, owner of the Hispaniola. Curly-beaked Gonzo and Rizzo the rat are the sailor sidekicks of the good-natured Jim, played by English schoolboy Kevin Bishop.
    There are some newcomers, including Polly, a vicious male lobster who waves a minicut-
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    And what about the humans, playing alongside what actor Tim Curry, cast as the evil pirate Long John Silver, calls “the most accomplished scene-stealers in the world?”
    “But it is enormous fun, and you find yourself talking to these creatures made of felt, having RELATIONSHIPS with them,” says Curry, best
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